Companies doing continuous improvement today commonly hobble along using an amalgamation of tools in an attempt to capture, implement, measure, and share improvement ideas. It's not long, though, before those systems get out of control, and people can't keep up with the work. That's when the rates of implementing new ideas, engaging employees, and capturing opportunities for improvement drops. To solve that problem, some organizations go so far as to try to develop their own continuous improvement software internally.
To that, we say:
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